Agentic AI Weather and Climate Model Development Industrial Placement

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Job Reference metoffice/TP/511/1485

Fixed Term Contract

Working Hours: 37

Location (City/Town): Exeter

Closing Date: 08/11/2026

Profession: Science

Region / Division: UK Region

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The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for Industrial Placements 2027.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, commencing at the start of July 2027, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us.

You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities are on offer at the Met Office after you graduate.

We’re looking for an Agentic AI for Weather and Climate Model Development Industrial Placement to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Agentic AI for Weather and Climate Model Development Industrial Placement, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. As an Industrial Placement, we would expect you to attend the office once a week as a minimum.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’rea force for good- focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’reexperts by nature- always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it- putting our purpose at the heart of decision - making
• We’rebetter together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make usgreater
• We keep evolving- pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise

Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field . You’ll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference.

Our next-generation weather and climate modelling systems increasingly combine physically-based numerical models with data- driven machine learning approaches, creating exciting opportunities for hybrid modelling techniques.

Exciting advances are being made in the use of Agentic AI tools to accelerate scientific discovery and software development. Working with members of our Dynamics Research team, you will investigate how Agentic AI can be used to develop, train and evaluate hybrid physical-machine learning models, delivering a prototype capability based on our existing modelling frameworks.

• Develop a prototype hybrid physical-machine learning model
• Use the Agentic AI to assist with training, testing and evaluating the integrated model
• Work with experts to help ensure the AI developments are robust and quality assured.

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing.

The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.

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